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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the O. S. Macon General Store Invoices #5277, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Robert W. Smithwick Jr. in April 2006 (Acc. 100398).

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• General stores--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Grocery trade--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Louisburg (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Louisburg (N.C.)--History.
• Louisburg (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Macon, O. S.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--20th century.

O. S. Macon owned a general store in Louisburg, N.C., in the 1920s.

The collection includes invoices from O. S. Macon's general store in Louisburg, N.C., January 1924-April 1926. Invoices are from wholesale grocery, drug, and other companies such as American Wholesale Corporation, Henderson Grocery Company, Southern Grocery Company, and W. H. Drug Company.